• pgb67 wrote: 90 points

    August 21, 2010 - Pucker up! Evokes the limeade I drank the other day in my favorite fresh-mex restaurant – and this is a compliment! Of course this is a slight exaggeration because there was nothing citrusy about the wine, but it had plenty of primary fruit on the nose and palate (underripe strawberry, sour cherry) and had a super tart acidity that was bracing but refreshing. With air, it developed more weight, and a nice earthy, forest floor element.

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  • quatrevingts wrote:

    July 18, 2010 - Very acidic, earthy, bright cherry fruit. I like it.

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  • Wicker Parker wrote:

    September 26, 2009 - With its nose of black cherry, smoke, roasted barley, black olive, and worcestershire sauce, this is very much a Loire gamay, not to be confused with any Beaujolais. This is fairly concentrated and the texture is more rustic than refined, and driven by robust cherry-tart acidity, but I dig all that. There's plenty of primary, non-sweet fruit on the palate — tangy plum, mostly, with a hint of olive — yet it's just starting to turn autumnal, with aspects of dried leaves and brown earth minerality. I suspect the acidity will seem harsh after the fruit fades but this should still drink very nicely over the next 6-12 months.

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  • stubbie999 wrote:

    September 3, 2009 - I'll echo my last note, with the addition of "Hells Yeah" More wine should be so honest, so delicious, so food-friendly, so easy, so good.

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  • stubbie999 wrote:

    May 17, 2009 - Hey there, what's this? A lovely expression of Gamay - strawberries, red cherries, damp earth, swirling florality. Lively fruit in the mouth along with a palate refreshing acidity, lightly grasping tannins and a bed of minerality. If this is what the AOC folks declassify to Vin de Table as being non-typical, gimme more of that. Every $15 wine should be this energizing. Great QPR, great food wine!

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  • fCOT wrote: 91 points

    May 5, 2009 - consistent with my previous notes.Juicy,chalky and pure.

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  • poptart_nyc wrote: 86 points

    April 6, 2009 - lots of funk, good acidity. wanted a gamay for my burger with ketchup, this wasn't quite the one. lacked a little fruit, but did have a good minerality.

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  • slanum wrote:

    March 24, 2009 - A tad too much Cot (I think) in the blend for my taste--prior years, particularly 2004, were sweeter, fruitier, more gulpable.

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  • fCOT wrote:

    November 1, 2008 - Pure delice.juicy and pure.some barnyard.bravo Monsieur Puzelat !

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